Live mismatches the world again

Rating: 9/10 (20 March 2008)

It's no wonder about the story character: T.D. bored in an improper way again. Improper boring place and time let such genius to be in inevitable destiny.
As there was a period of US imagination from Europe, most of the people had a mind set that the dream to New York indicated a pathway for wealth. However, it's make a strong contrast of such infinity desire, seems no one revealed that it let them to fall in a nightmare rather than a sweet dream. Only those elites (actually T.D. was named as 1900, also implied the Caucasians were so superstitious even after the period of enlightenment) were sober enough and not be chanted.
What T.D. experienced and then achieved to be a legend, was about how to overcome those temptations, in which there were 2 life crossovers, determining he would be an ordinary or extraordinary.
First, he was so calm to regard reputation and wealth, knew that success was not be measured by such a way. It was a memorable competition with the Musician: Father of Jazz, who was noted and rich, while compared with T.D. and Max (no one knew such hidden guy, and Max was so poor who sold his trumpet later), people should regard the anterior to have a recognizable identification. However, a Black suffered the impact so shocking, after being defeated, was due to his previous "success. Without an extreme attention on the power and reputation, he knew "no one will be number one all the time", and hence got a positive feedback from the interflow with T.D, rather than treating it as a competition.
The other incident was am barrier that everyone fails in it: Love. Many philosophers have mentioned before that Love could not be explained reasonably when someone falls in it. The involver will be very confused and does various silly thing until they have been escaped. In the case of T.D. he was definitely fell in love, but he could still defense for his personal living principle. Only passing such hard tests can be promoted to a holy level in the life. (notice that in "Cinema Paradiso", Love was highly admirable and it was worth scarifying a lot by accomplishing it, such contrast made in "The legend of 1900", probably being intended arranged by the director and producer.
Although the destiny of T.D. was so unfortunate, it was colorful and meaningful to others. His last joke told to Max, clearly concluded a ridiculous world: he said if he was broken after the ship explored, can let his right arm connected back, but may mis-attached on left shoulder, made him to be abnormal. Such indication about the mis-match of his born and growth on the marine and abnormal (even as a genius) was not valuable, he would rather to be ordinary and live on land, like normal people: marriage, organizing a family with children, no surprise of such live but worth living..
Finally, I want to point out those scenes' that impressed me most. The initial one was the performance of T.D. versed the Jazz Musician. The magic playing of T.D. was presented in various cut-in between his face, the piano keys, chord, and his multi-hands. His sweating was also be charm in such a way. With the aid of the semi-dissolving transition, as well as the cut-away shots of the response, gestures of those audiences (include the musician), such excellent magic was shocked by twice in our eyes.
The other scene was about T.D. landing. When he got ready ashore, the freeze medium close up was stable, peaceful, without any background music. Such silence let T.D. made a crucial decision. Then he threw away his hat implied abandoning those mind set (i.e. human desire when facing such a highlight city), he would be chanted by a material world, and what he hardly got: love with girl. The director tried to minimize any effects on that scene, whilst was unforgettable for most of the audiences, like me.